on Sun Jul 17 2011, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
GitHub is better. Google Code is better. BitBucket is better. Indefero is better. Shall I go on? ;-)
Hm.. Perhaps you should. Since I wasn't aware of some of those ;-)
Well, those are the ones off the top of my head, but I'm sure that if you dig (read: google) around you'll find others in a snap.
My point is, there's no reason for Boost to spend its resources or attention on this; there are plenty of professionally-run services giving it away for free.
Right; but there is one thing that the current sandbox provides.. Boost topical locality. All the code in there is specifically for Boost in some form. And hence it's a bit easier for visitors to find new things in it. Which is what was brought up in other posts.. Of trying to not do our own central hosting, yet keep a nice central "index" / "catalog" location.
Yes. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com